Frontiers of Justice

by Nussbaum, Martha C.

• ISBN13: 9780674024106
• ISBN10: 0674024109
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-30
• Publisher: Belknap Pr

Summary

Taking up three urgent problems of social justice neglected by current theories and thus harder to tackle in practical terms and everyday life, Martha Nussbaum seeks a theory of social justice that can guide us to a richer, more responsive approach to social cooperation. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Social Contracts and Three Unsolved Problems of Justice	p. 9
The State of Nature	p. 9
Three Unsolved Problems	p. 14
Rawls and the Unsolved Problems	p. 22
Free, Equal, and Independent	p. 25
Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant	p. 35
Three Forms of Contemporary Contractarianism	p. 54
The Capabilities Approach	p. 69
Capabilities and Contractarianism	p. 81
In Search of Global Justice	p. 92
Disabilities and the Social Contract	p. 96
Needs for Care, Problems of Justice	p. 96
Prudential and Moral Versions of the Contract; Public and Private	p. 103
Rawls's Kantian Contractarianism: Primary Goods, Kantian Personhood, Rough Equality' Mutual Advantage	p. 107
Postponing the Question of Disability	p. 108
Kantian Personhood and Mental Impairment	p. 127
Care and Disability: Kittay and Sen	p. 140
Reconstructing Contractarianism?	p. 145
Capabilities and Disabilities	p. 155
The Capabilities Approach: A Noncontractarian Account of Care	p. 155
The Bases of Social Cooperation	p. 156
Dignity: Aristotelian, not Kantian	p. 159
The Priority of the Good, the Role of Agreement	p. 160
Why Capabilities?	p. 164
Care and the Capabilities List	p. 168
Capability or Functioning?	p. 171
The Charge of Intuitionism	p. 173
The Capabilities Approach and Rawls's Principles of Justice	p. 176
Types and Levels of Dignity: The Species Norm	p. 179
Public Policy: The Question of Guardianship	p. 195
Public Policy: Education and Inclusion	p. 199
Public Policy: The Work of Care	p. 211
Liberalism and Human Capabilities	p. 216
Mutual Advantage and Global Inequality: The Transnational Social Contract	p. 224
A World of Inequalities	p. 224
A Theory of Justice: The Two-Stage Contract Introduced	p. 230
The Law of Peoples: The Two-Stage Contract Reaffirmed and Modified	p. 238
Justification and Implementation	p. 255
Assessing the Two-Stage Contract	p. 262
The Global Contract: Beitz and Pogge	p. 264
Prospects for an International Contractrarianism	p. 270
Capabilities across National Boundaries	p. 273
Social Cooperation: The Priority of Entidements	p. 273
Why Capabilities?	p. 281
Capabilities and Rights	p. 284
Equality and Adequacy	p. 291
Pluralism and Toleration	p. 295
An International "Overlapping Consensus"?	p. 298
Globalizing the Capabilities Approach: The Role of Institutions	p. 306
Globalizing the Capabilities Approach: What Institutions?	p. 311
Ten Principles for the Global Structure	p. 315
Beyond "Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Nonhuman Animals	p. 325
"Beings Entitled to Dignified Existence"	p. 325
Kantian Social Contract Views: Indirect Duties, Duties of Compassion	p. 328
Utilitarianism and Animal Flourishing	p. 338
Types of Dignity, Types of Flourishing: Extending the Capabilities Approach	p. 346
Methodology: Theory and Imagination	p. 352
Species and Individual	p. 357
Evaluating Animal Capabilities: No Nature Worship	p. 366
Positive and Negative, Capability and Functioning	p. 372
Equality and Adequacy	p. 380
Death and Harm	p. 384
An Overlapping Consensus?	p. 388
Toward Basic Political Principles: The Capabilities List	p. 392
The Ineliminability of Conflict	p. 401
Toward a Truly Global Justice	p. 405
The Moral Sentiments and the Capabilities Approach	p. 408
Notes	p. 417
References	p. 451
Index	p. 463
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